Applications

The point: Be continually transformed by the renewing of your mind, focusing on what you think, as it shapes who you are.

Martin quotes from Mary Cassian's book to illustrate the vicious, constant, and multifaceted attack on the biblical concept of godly motherhood by radical feminism, highlighting its commitment to obliterate God's definition of masculinity and femininity.

In the vanity of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them. You see, the apostle recognizes this great principle. And what I am saying by way of exhortation to every godly woman in this place who is committed to the biblical perspectives of the noble task of godly motherhood, you need to lay to heart this text and say, oh God, help me that I may be immunized, that I may be preserved against the prevailing mindset of this particular age. And in no period of at least our national history as a country has the biblical c...

17:11 - 18:36 Read in full sermon

The point: Be continually transformed by the renewing of your mind, focusing on what you think, as it shapes who you are.

He traces the philosophical influence of Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem to demonstrate how radical feminist ideas have filtered into society, undermining biblical womanhood.

Because the Bible was written by misogynists, women-haters, and men in positions of patriarchal male dominance. You ever heard of Simone de Beauvoir? You may have never heard of her, but you have been exposed to her influence daily. She was the brilliant young French philosopher who had a common-law relationship with the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

19:51 - 20:31 Read in full sermon

Driving home: It's all out war, dear people. And this is why my exhortation to you, dear women, is plead with God that you will not be conformed.

Using Phillips' paraphrase of Romans 12:2, he describes the world's pressure as 'squeezing you into its mold' to illustrate the constant pressure on women to conform to unbiblical ideals.

It's all out war, dear people. And this is why my exhortation to you, dear women, is plead with God that you will not be conformed. Conformed. Letting the world, in the free paraphrase of this passage by Phillips, squeeze you into its mold.

22:34 - 23:00 Read in full sermon

Driving home: It's all out war, dear people. And this is why my exhortation to you, dear women, is plead with God that you will not be conformed.

He uses the analogy of a godly woman 'glowing in the power of the Spirit with the dignity of her identity' as a 'rebuke to this generation' to explain why the world pressures her to conform, as men love darkness rather than light.

Oh, no. You see, every woman who glows in the power of the Spirit with the dignity of her identity as a godly mother is a rebuke to this generation. And men love what? Dark rather than light.

23:22 - 23:42 Read in full sermon

The point: Spend far more hours in your Bible than in front of the TV, memorizing and absorbing Scripture to renew your mind.

He uses the TV show 'Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman' as a concrete example of seemingly innocent family programming that subtly promotes radical feminist and homosexual-affirming agendas, illustrating how worldly influences corrupt the mind.

I'll clue you. It won't be sitting down, absorbing all of Dr. Quinn's feminism, radical, independent, homosexual-promoting garbage. And if you question that, I'll document it.

24:57 - 25:17 Read in full sermon

The point: Engage in conscious and deliberate preparation for the broad spectrum of what it means to be a godly mother, developing all your God-given faculties.

Oprah Winfrey's common-law relationship and lack of desire for children are presented as a negative model for Christian girls, illustrating the unbiblical aspirations promoted by the world system.

Now when we talk then of the matter of aspiration I'm assuming in you girls who claim to be united to Christ by faith and in you single women that this is the baseline aspiration but overlaid upon that overlaid upon it as you think of your identity as a woman as you think of what in the purpose of God may be your calling as a woman may I urge you may I plead with you to take the passages expounded two weeks ago and pray them in until you can say with the baseline being I want to glorify Christ live for Christ honor Christ out of gratitude to Christ O Lord if it please you give me to know in my...

30:04 - 31:32 Read in full sermon

The point: Engage in conscious and deliberate preparation for the broad spectrum of what it means to be a godly mother, developing all your God-given faculties.

The character of the chief cardiologist on 'Chicago Hope' is used as another example of a worldly model that promotes self-sufficiency and career over biblical womanhood, illustrating what Christian women should not aspire to.

whom she shamelessly acknowledges has been her living companion for years with no intention of decent marriage no desire for children with her self-righteous inclusion of everything from Alan the pervert before millions God have mercy on you she is no model for any Christian nor is the chief cardiologist on Chicago Hope who thinks she's got it all see what I'm saying is you're not going to get from this world system anything to encourage you girls and you single women to aspire to that most noble of callings and I'm pleading with you to soak your soul in your Bibles until that aspiration rises...

31:32 - 32:59 Read in full sermon

The point: Engage in conscious and deliberate preparation for the broad spectrum of what it means to be a godly mother, developing all your God-given faculties.

He uses the vivid, somewhat humorous, analogy of a 'dunce and a dodo and a bimbo' who only 'cook and smile and kiss your hubby on the cheek and produce baby' to critique a naive and unbiblical view of raising daughters for motherhood.

go back to Proverbs 31 go back to the first commandment thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy mind with all thy soul and with all thy strength there's no parenthesis saying except if you're gonna be a wife and a mother then you can be a dunce and a dodo and a bimbo and you just need to have a cook and smile and kiss your hubby on the cheek and produce baby my friends what a terribly unbiblical view think of the broad spectrum of what it is to be a godly mother so to know the scriptures that you can produce a timothy that as a grown man somebody can say to your son an...

34:27 - 35:56 Read in full sermon

The point: Engage in conscious and deliberate preparation for the broad spectrum of what it means to be a godly mother, developing all your God-given faculties.

He recounts a story of his wife being asked by a little girl, 'Jesus God mummy? ... how come he was talking to himself?' and another girl trying to walk on bathwater, to illustrate the complex theological questions children ask and the need for mothers to be 'theologians.'

go back to Proverbs 31 go back to the first commandment thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy mind with all thy soul and with all thy strength there's no parenthesis saying except if you're gonna be a wife and a mother then you can be a dunce and a dodo and a bimbo and you just need to have a cook and smile and kiss your hubby on the cheek and produce baby my friends what a terribly unbiblical view think of the broad spectrum of what it is to be a godly mother so to know the scriptures that you can produce a timothy that as a grown man somebody can say to your son an...

34:27 - 35:56 Read in full sermon

The point: Engage in conscious and deliberate preparation for the broad spectrum of what it means to be a godly mother, developing all your God-given faculties.

He uses the example of people answering the phone with a rude 'hello' or 'who you want?' to illustrate a lack of common courtesy and manners, contrasting it with Jesus' growth in favor with men and the need for mothers to teach grace.

well why can't she? and why should she not place her faith in what it says Jesus did on whether or not she can do it that's a theological question you got an answer? you won't get it watching the soaps and reading cheap so called Christian romance novels what a task to be the kind of theologian you need to be to be a godly mother you need to be an armchair psychologist not learning your psychology from the secular psychologist but soaking your soul in the book of proverbs reading books that responsibly seek to expound the principles of child development it's said of our blessed Lord as to his ...

36:10 - 37:37 Read in full sermon

The point: Repent of your sin, pride, and anything that keeps you from embracing Christ, so you can give your children the 'bread of life' and become the mother God intends.

He uses the analogy of a parent deliberately withholding daily bread from their children, which would be seen as a horrible crime, to illustrate the greater spiritual crime of unconverted mothers withholding the 'bread of life' (Christ) from their children.

all that you have done in God's common grace in being willing to conceive and carry a child for nine months go into the throes of birthing that child caring for it in its utter dependentness and helplessness in those early months feeding, nourishing, caring washing its dirty clothes I would in no way speak disparagingly of anything you have done but I ask you this simple question my unconverted mother listen to me, listen do you know that you're robbing robbing, robbing your children of the greatest love the greatest thing you can give them the greatest thing you can give them is not well bala...

40:30 - 41:58 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The final application is a blunt reproof and correction for young men and single adult men, challenging their latent hedonism. Martin argues that their self-indulgent pursuit of…

He uses the cultural reference of 'Sadie Hawkins Day' from the 'Little Abner' comic strip, where women could 'catch' a man, to humorously illustrate the impossibility of women creating godly men or arranging marriages in a Reformed Baptist context.

Can a group of elders get together at a convention somewhere and declare a Reformed Baptist Sadie Hawkins Day? Now, a lot of you don't know what Sadie Hawkins Day is. I'm dating myself.

54:55 - 55:06 Read in full sermon

Driving home: You can have a very refined and respectable respectable, hedonism that is quasi-Christian. Living for self-indulgent pleasure as a way of life.

He describes unconverted single male companions who express hedonism through 'drugs, sex, booze, a lifestyle that is patently immoral,' to contrast with a 'refined and respectable quasi-Christian hedonism' found among some Christian men.

Your whirling hedonistic friends, when they adopt hedonism, how do most of them express it? Unbiblical, anti-law indulgence in drugs, sex, booze, a lifestyle that is patently immoral. They're almost proud on the Monday morning to tell how many of the Ten Commandments they broke on the weekend. But now listen carefully.

57:02 - 57:28 Read in full sermon

The point: If single, be a 'eunuch for the kingdom's sake,' burning yourself up for God's work, not for your 'toys' sake.

He shares a personal anecdote from his youth, when at 20, someone mistook his kid brother for his son, and he felt a 'glow' at the thought of having that 'burden' and 'responsibility' of fatherhood, illustrating a lost aspiration in the current generation of young men.

And you parents, you raise your sons with the understanding that to be a man is an awesome burden. I thank God for a father who reared me that way. It was an awesome burden, but a noble privilege and responsibility. Can I ever forget when I came home from college, 20 years old, went for a walk with my kid brother.

62:11 - 62:39 Read in full sermon